Skills to effectively delegate tasks are critical to have in any type of business regardless of industry, product, service or business model. In fact, knowing how to delegate tasks successfully should be a mandatory part of any business training. It is the one...

What happens when you believe you have the perfect business process and your virtual assistant STILL gets it wrong? Virtual assistant mistakes are so infuriating and can drive you demented. I know because I have been there over and over again, not just...

Leadership is never an easy path. When you throw a virtual environment into the mix, there are even more challenges. The qualities of a good leader are thrown more sharply into focus when you need to successfully manage a team that is entirely remote....

Your work culture helps to shape everything about your business. It dictates the experience of your customers and the attitudes and beliefs of your team members. It can be a huge factor in the overall success or failure of your business. When your company...

Videos have become such a major part of today’s marketing landscape that businesses have joined in on the trend and use videos in their digital marketing efforts. This may be largely due to fact that modern consumers are more likely to pay more attention to...

Skills to effectively delegate tasks are critical to have in any type of business regardless of industry, product, service or business model. In fact, knowing how to delegate tasks successfully should be a mandatory part of any business training. It is the one...

What happens when you believe you have the perfect business process and your virtual assistant STILL gets it wrong? Virtual assistant mistakes are so infuriating and can drive you demented. I know because I have been there over and over again, not just...

Leadership is never an easy path. When you throw a virtual environment into the mix, there are even more challenges. The qualities of a good leader are thrown more sharply into focus when you need to successfully manage a team that is entirely remote....

Your work culture helps to shape everything about your business. It dictates the experience of your customers and the attitudes and beliefs of your team members. It can be a huge factor in the overall success or failure of your business. When your company...

Videos have become such a major part of today’s marketing landscape that businesses have joined in on the trend and use videos in their digital marketing efforts. This may be largely due to fact that modern consumers are more likely to pay more attention to...

Social media campaigns can take up a lot of your time. The thing is, successful campaigns aren’t created with a “set and forget” method, they require monitoring, interacting, and potentially making changes based on feedback. For any business owner, this can...

I’ve always been one to start things with the end in mind and build businesses from Day 1 with a view on how they will look in five years’ time as a potentially saleable asset. That often meant making fast decisions around taking on people and business systems...

“Getting more done” is always a priority in any business, and productivity apps often have a role to play. If you’re working with a virtual assistant, it’s important that you’ve got the best productivity apps in place to help facilitate a virtual...

Having a personal assistant in this modern world of complexities is inevitable.A personal assistant nowadays can either work in your office space daily or can be your virtual assistant. A virtual assistant is one who does almost all the tasks your next room personal...

Giving and receiving constructive feedback is part of a healthy working relationship with your virtual assistant. Consider a time when you’ve ever received constructive feedback at work. Was it received in-person, or via a remote means of communication?...

Research is an indispensable part of any business. When you’re aiming for growth, your first move is to always look for information on how you can get ahead of the competition and what the current and best market trends are. And though doing online research...

Never in all my years in business did I expect that discovering a niche by chance would lead me to successfully provide offshore jobs to virtual assistants — but that’s exactly what happened! Have you ever heard of someone launching an accidental business?...

Working remotely has many benefits and is an increasingly popular work mode. You don’t have office overhead, you set your own hours or workload, and you can access talent from anywhere with an Internet connection. A virtual assistant is a key asset when your...

All organizations have bosses, but how many can confidently say they have leaders? The terms may be used interchangeably (and are often confused), but if we look closely, not all bosses are leaders. After all, the qualities of a leader are what often sets them...

Managing virtual teams can be very rewarding, but it’s not without challenges. If you’ve ever had the situation where conflict pops up and then seems to blow out of reasonable proportion, you’re not alone. If anything, the remote nature of virtual teams can...

Have you ever thought about how types of leadership might influence how you go about hiring team members? You've probably already noticed that some personalities work much better together than others. When it comes to hiring a virtual assistant, it's important...

Karen Rudkin-Moody, Marketing Manager and Co-Founder of Ryan Moody Fishing, is passionate in providing a simple and easy means for people to fish better with their tried and tested online fishing course, Barra Basics. She shares with The Virtual Hub how her...

If you’ve been doing business in the online world for a while, you’re probably familiar with the term “SEO.” Search Engine Optimization, put simply, means that you look for ways to optimize your website so that you have a better chance of showing up in...

As your business gets busier, have you found it difficult to keep up with everything? Sometimes things start to slip, not intentionally, but simply because you’re so slammed and your time really is finite! Growing businesses often reach an awkward point, where...

Overseeing projects is a complex undertaking. Business owners need a reliable system to help them plan and execute all parts of the project management process and be able to communicate properly with those involved at the same time. Communication is key when...

Why did you choose to be an entrepreneur? Most of us had some kind of dream. We saw a problem that needed solving and determined to “be your own boss” and start a successful business. Somewhere in there, we thought about the freedoms that self-employment can...

Are you getting the most value from your content writing? Most businesses are aware that producing regular, quality website content is a great way to build credibility, draw in an audience, and boost website traffic. The challenge is that producing and...

Are you considering whether it’s time to get virtual assistant services? It can be hard for many business owners to make the shift to entrusting key tasks to someone else - it’s your “baby” after all! How do you decide what needs delegating? How do you know...

Could you use a little help in your business? We all reach a point where doing the “doing” is not the best use of our time anymore. It’s time to hire someone, but who is it that you really need onboard? A virtual assistant can be a great option. But you must know...

When you have your own business, it’s common to try and do everything yourself, as this gives you more control over how you want things run and managed. But if your business has grown to the point where you’ve become overwhelmed with just trying to cover all the...

Does this sound at all familiar? You set up your social media accounts, knowing that having a social media strategy is an essential part of driving visibility for your business. You start out well, posting regularly and seeing some engagement, but managing those...

Have you ever had the feeling that you could be getting so much more out of Ontraport, or indeed any other software package you’ve purchased? Our founder, Barbara Turley, felt the same way - she knew the program was great and had the knowledge to use it, but not the...

Have you purchased Ontraport for your business? This software is an amazing tool for helping you to get to next-level results, however, in order to do so, you need to be optimizing how you use it! For many business owners, this is another task in a rather large pile....

Have you ever invested in marketing tools or other software for your business, but felt that perhaps you could be doing more with it? This is a common issue among clients who come to us at The Virtual Hub. They’ve paid for something awesome (like Hubspot) which...

Do you ever find yourself still caught up in too much “doing” despite delegating tasks to a virtual assistant or other team members? From personal experience, entrepreneurs can be their own worst enemies with regard to struggling to let go of things. Perhaps they...

A common concern when hiring a virtual assistant is ensuring that you actually boost productivity, rather than creating a new job for yourself. Not only that, ideally you want to be able to create a productive long-term relationship with a reliable virtual...

Are you ready to hire a virtual assistant? One concern that we hear frequently is that business owners are worried about protecting their business before hiring someone who works remotely. It makes sense - you don’t really know this person and you’re going to give...

Sometimes business owners come to us quite nervous. Why? Often because they’ve tried outsourcing their work before and had a painful experience with it. Sometimes they’ve been unlucky and struck someone who was completely unsuitable for the job, other times, they’ve...

How does the term "scalable" tickle your fancy when it comes to building a business? It's a term which has grown in the business lexicon over the last few years, especially if you work within the digital space. “Scalable” evokes visions of explosive growth, where...

For all the time and effort you put into finding, hiring, and training a VA for your business, you want to be fairly certain they’re going to work out. So, what’s the best way to find a great virtual assistant? How does the experience compare when hiring a freelancer,...

Have you ever had the feeling (as you slog away in your business) that "other people" seem to have discovered the magical secret to growth? You work hard every day, you see results in your business, but growth isn't as great as you'd like. Meanwhile, some new kid on...

Ever wonder how the big guns of the entrepreneurial world seem to skyrocket their success...without blowing up their cash flow? There’s no secret sauce you’re missing out on — but there’s a formula for it! A formula that, when executed correctly, works 9...

Hiring virtual personal assistants has become very popular these days, and you’ve undoubtedly heard entrepreneurs tout the numerous benefits of having the best virtual assistant to help them out with work and even manage their personal schedules. While it...

In today’s hectic world, often times we find it too difficult to know how to be productive in our daily lives. We pour 100 percent of our efforts into doing as much as we can but there are times when there’s just so much to do that we can’t seem to focus on just one...

We had the pleasure of having Matthew Barby, Global Head of Growth & SEO at Hubspot, on the Virtual Success Podcast where he talked at length about how he leverages virtual teams to drive large content & growth strategies. He also delved into how he manages to...

Managing virtual teams is no easy feat. It entails juggling people from different locations and tracking what everyone else is doing, which can sometimes seem too much for anyone already overseeing a business. Entrepreneurs hesitate in hiring a virtual...

Want to know how to run a business without you at the helm? You’ve probably wondered at one point in your entrepreneurial life if it was possible to manage a business and not be in the thick of things, because perhaps you want time to have a baby, or hike...

If you’re a marketer, chances are you’ve already thought about using social media scheduling tools. Social media can get pretty overwhelming if you don’t have access to the right social media scheduling tools. Managing social media goes beyond just taking a picture,...

Ever felt the need for proper content marketing tips at any point in your entrepreneurial life? I have. In fact, I’ve been going through a process for the past 3 months of getting one of my other ventures, Energise Wealth, ready for a relaunch. It is a...

Trent Giumelli, CEO of Giumelli Group, is a highly driven, passionate, honest, dedicated, loving, optimistic person who thrives on teaching others the secrets of Real Estate through 18+ years of experience in property investing and development. Q: Tell Us A Bit...

Svetlana Burckhardt is the Director of EyebrowExperts in Sydney and author of the recently released book ‘Confessions of a Brazilian Waxing Queen’. Svetlana is a guru of both brows and waxing (famously known for her incredible 7 minute Brazilian!) and is very well...

Donna Wild stands for empowering women and children globally to embrace a plant-based diet. An author, a current Australian Latin dance cup champion and a mother. She runs a website called Wild Donna where she supports mums and their families to thrive on a plant...

Recently, I was having a strategy call with one of my private clients who was in the throes of a rather large and annoying systems migration from Clickfunnels to Ontraport so she could finally kick her amazing online program into more effective and streamlined...

The Virtual Hub

Our mission is to eradicate small business overwhelm by simplifying the offshore outsourcing process and facilitating cost-effective business scalability. We are also committed to creating dynamic, next level careers for smart and enthusiastic people from The Philippines who want to excel with international clients.